This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), supports research to investigate the impacts of racial inequality on substance use and HIV outcomes among sexual minority men (SMM) of color in Los Angeles County. The $1,317,459 award, granted on September 15, 2024, will fund a study to: 1) examine how historical racist practices influence unequal spatial patterns and their association with...
This $155,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), will support a mixed-methods study to examine how adolescents' experiences with socioeconomic status (SES) discrimination intersect with discrimination based on race/ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation, and how SES discrimination is associated with substance use in adolescents. The study will be conducted by San Francisco State University, in...
This federal Project Grant award of $2,332,704.00 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) aims to conduct innovative observational research across 5 U.S. cities. The primary objective is to better understand the social contexts of racial, ethnic, and sexual/gender minority populations, and how inequities in those social contexts drive HIV and substance use disparities. Specifically, the project will examine how an...
This $1,218,738 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (CFDA 93.279 - Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs) aims to elucidate the impact of minority stress factors on tobacco use among sexual minority young adults (SMYAs), with a focus on examining the intersection of sexual orientation and rurality. The 2-year longitudinal study, led by the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, will involve a 5-wave survey of 2,000 SMYAs and a 21-day ecological momentary...
This $102,780 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) will fund research to dissect the role of loneliness on substance use and HIV-related outcomes among sexual minority men in the U.S. and Canada. The research aims to examine the relationship between loneliness, substance use (drug, alcohol, and polysubstance use), HIV prevention (antiretroviral adherence and PrEP use), and non-fatal overdose....
This $791,685 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) will fund a longitudinal study investigating neurobehavioral and psychosocial predictors of health risk behaviors (HRBs) from adolescence to young adulthood. The primary goals are to: 1) assess longitudinal associations between brain valuation/control systems and HRBs; 2) examine how childhood poverty, abuse, and neglect impact the developmental...
This Project Grant award of $1,303,830 from the National Institute of Mental Health (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) supports research to address gaps in understanding risk and resilience factors for suicidal thoughts and behaviors among sexual and gender minority (SGM) preteens. The research aims to: Develop consensus on best practices for safely and effectively sampling, recruiting, and retaining high-risk SGM preteens into research. Create and pretest an assessment tool to...
This Project Grant award, totaling $3,272,129.00, was provided by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) federal grant program. The project aims to build a national cohort of 1,000 Black sexual and gender minority (SGM) adolescents and young adults aged 16-24 to investigate the role of structural oppression in driving suicide risk within this population. The primary research activities...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), will fund the optimization and evaluation of an online behavioral intervention to prevent and reduce substance use (including alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and vaping) among high school seniors during a critical transition period. The $1,702,558 award from NIDA to Prevention Strategies, LLC will support the development of an initial set of six theory-based...
This $2,091,715 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) will support research to characterize the impact of structural racism on neurocognitive mechanisms of substance use risk among minority youth. The study will be conducted in partnership with the Boricua Youth Study, a long-running cohort of Puerto Rican families in the South Bronx, New York and San Juan, Puerto Rico. The key objectives...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), will fund a study to investigate social safety as a mechanism linking minority stress and problematic substance use among sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth. The $121,323 grant will support an accelerated longitudinal cohort study involving two 7-wave data sets to examine: 1) how minority stress in adolescence impacts social safety and problematic substance use in young adulthood for SGM youth; 2) whether periods of increased minority stress and decreased social safety correspond with elevations in problematic substance use; and 3) if protective factors can reduce the risk of problematic substance use associated with decrements in social safety. The study aims to inform the development of school-based programs, social services, and policies to address social safety as a protective factor against substance use risk among SGM youth.